how to hang up tapestries

How to hang up Tapestris and kilim

Different ways exist for hanging a fabric, a tapestry or anantique carpet: with metallic bars or by passers fixed on the piece to hang, with rings or hooks

 

Hung up antique Kalat-e sumak by plexiglas panel

We have preferred to adopt a safer and more pratical solution. In what sense? Usually in a suspended tapestry by rings or passers the force on weft, due to its weight, is born just in the points of rings. Besides with these techniques the tapestry cannot be well tense. We looked for a way to avoid all this and we found it. Look at the example in the photo: to a wood bar, with 5 mM thickness and a little inferior length to the size of tapestry, it’s fixed a “male” Velcro using metallic points. This bar will be subsequently hang to the wall by small plugs, as it was a picture, and therefore on the other side 1 or 2 picture hooks must be applied, according to the necessity.


To this point the support to hang the tapestry is ready to be hanged.
On the back of the tapestry a “female” Velcro will be hand-stiched (it will stick on that on the bar).
In this way even if the structure of textile to be hung is weak, the force of weight will be distributed in the whole width and not just on few points. Besides it will be possible to regulate the fall and the inclination in a correct way.
Very thin Aubusson Tapestry fixe don base with the Velcro



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